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"What do you think of that?" cried the detective, with the air of a showman exhibiting his show. ''This was overlooked because it was in the darkest corner of the room and no one thought of looking there. The murderer has written it in his or her own blood. See this smear where it iftias trickled down th.3 wall! That disposes of the idea of suicide, anyhow. Why was that corner chosen "•to write on? I will tell you. icandle on the mantel-piece. It was

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brightest instead of the darkest portion of the wall." "And what does it mean, now that you have found it?" asked Gregson, in a depreciatory voice. "Mean? Why, it means that tne writer was going to put the female Dame of Rachel, but was disturbed before he or she had time to finish. You mark my words, before this ease comes to be cleared up you will find that a woman named Rachel has something to do with it. It's all •very well for you to laugh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes." You may be very •smart and clever, but the old hound is the best when all is said and done." "I really beg your pardon!" said cny companion, who had ruffled the little man's temper by bursting into an explosion of laughter. "You certainly have the credit of being tbe first of us to find this out, and. as you say, it bears every mark of fcaving been written by the other participant in last night's mystery. I have not had time to examine this room yet, but with your permission I shall do so now."

As ho spoke he whipped a tape measure and a large, round magnifying glass from his pocket. With these two implements he trotted noislessly about the room, sometimes stopping, occasionally kneeling, and once lying flat upon his face. So engrossed was he with his •occupation that he appeared to have forgotten our presence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, .»nd little cries suggestive of encouragement and hope. As I watched bim I was irresistibly reminded of a pure blooded, well trained fox hound as he dashes backward and forward through the covert, whining in eagerness until it comes across the lost scent. For twenty minutes or more he continued his researches, tfieasuring with the most exact care the distance between the mark's which were entirely invisible to rn\ and occasionally applying his tape to the walls in an equally incomprehensible manner. In one piace he gathered very carefully a little pile Dt' gray dust from the floor and put it away in an envelope. Finally he examined with his glass the word Upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most minute exactness. This done, he appeared to be satisfied, for he replaced his tape and his glass in his pucket. "They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad deiinitiiin, but it does apply to detective work."

Gregson and Lor-trade had watched the maneuvers of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt. They evidently jailed to appreciate the fact, which had begun to realize, that Sherlock Holme's smallest actions were all directed toward some

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COXAN DOYLE.

PART I.

(Being leprlat from reminiscences of Johs H. Watsox, m. D., late of the Army Medica Department.]

CHAPTER III—CONTINITBI*.

^Tjook ftt that!" he said triumphantly. I have remarked that the paper had fallen away in parts. In this particular corner of the room a lanre piece had peeled off, leaving a yellow square of coarse plastering. Across tins bare space there was scrawled iu blood-red letters a single word:

lighted at that time, and if it was! graph office, whence he dispatched lighted this corner would be the along telegram.

delinite and

'practical end. "What do you think of it, sir?" they both asked. "It would be robbing you of the credit of the case if I were to presume to help you," remarked my friend. "You are doing so well now that it would be a pity for any one Jto interfere." There was a world of sarcasm in his voice as he spoke. "If you will let me know how your investigations go," he continued, "I shall be happy to give you any help •1 can. In the meantime I should like to speak to the constable who found the body. Can you give me hie name and address?" 'V

Lestrade glanced at his note book. "John Ranee," he said. "He's off •duty now. You will find him at 4l» Audley Court, Kcnnington Park Gate." Holmes took a note of the address. "Cotno along, doctor," he said, "wc shall go and look him up. I'll

"ing to the two detectives. There has leea murder done, and the murderer

florid face, and tbe finger nails of his right hand were remarkably long. These are only a few instructions, but they may assist, you."

Lestrade and Gregson glanced at each other with an incredulous smile. "If this man was murdered, how was it done?" asked the former. "Poison," said Sherlock Holmes, curtly, and strode off. "One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door:

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German for 'revenge,' so don't lose vour time hunting for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.

CHAPTER IV.

tfUAT JOHN RANCE IIAD TO TELL. It was one o'clock when we left

See the No. 3 Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock

It was Holmes led me to the nearest tele-

cab,

4'but

He then hailed a

and ordered the driver to take us to the address given us by Lestrade. "There is nothing like first-hand evidence," he remarked "as a matter of fact, my mind is entirely made up upon the case, but stilly we may as well learn all that is to be learned." "You amaze me, Holmes, said I. "Surely you are not as sure as you pretend to be of all those particulars which you gave." "There's no room for a mistake," he answered. "The very first thing which 1 observed on arriving there was that a cab had made two ruts with its wheels close to the curb. Now, up to last nignt, we have had no rain for a week, so that those wheels, which left such a deep impression, must have been there during the night. There were the marks of a horse's hoofs,too?tbe outline of one of which was more clearly cut than that of the other three, showing that that was a new shoe. Since tbe cab was there after the rain began, and was not there at any time during the morning -I have Gregson's word for that—it follows that it must have been there during the night, and, therefore, that it brought those two individuals to the house." "That seems simple enough," said

how about the other mau's

height?" "Why, the height of a man in nine oases out of ten, can be told from the length of his stride. It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use of my boring you with figures. I had this fellow's stride, both on the clay outside and the dust within. Then I had a way of checking my calculation. When a man writes on a wall his instinct leads him to write about the level of his own eyes. Now, that writing was just over six feet from the ground. It was child's play." "And his age?" I asked. "Well, if a man can stride four and a half feet without the smallest effort, he can't, be quite in the sere and yellow. That was the breadth of a puddle on the garden walk which he had evidently walked across. Patent-leather boots lia:l jone round and Square-toes had hopped over. There is no mystery about it at all. I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article. Is there anv thing else that puzzles you?" -"The finger-nails and Trichinopolv," suggested. "The writing on the wall was done with a man's finger dipped in blood. M.v glass allowed me to observe that the plaster was slightly scratched in doing it, which would not have been the case if the man's nail had been trimmed. I gathered up some scattered ash from the floor. It was dark in color and llakv—such an ash as is only made by a Trlehinopoly. I have made a special study of cigar ashes—in fact, I have written a monograph upon the subject. I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand of cigar or of tobacco. ]t is just in such details the skilled detective differs from the Gregson and Lestrade type." "And the florid face?" I asked. "Ah. that was a moredariugshot, though I have no doubt I was right. You must not ask me that at the present state of affairs."

I passed my hand over my brow. "My head is in a whirl," I said "the more one thinks of it ^he more mysterious it grows. How came these two men—if there were two men—into an empty house? What has become of the cabman who drove them? How could one man compel another to take poison? Where did the blood come from? What was the

tell you one thing which may he'p object of the murderer, since robbery voj in the case," he continued, r/n- had no part in it? How came the

•was a man- He was more than six the German word Rache before defect high, was in ae prime of life, camping? I confess that I can not had small feet for his height, wore' see any possible way of reconciling coarse, square toed boots, and

his off fore leg. In all tho murderer had a

woman's ring there? Above all, why should tho second man write up

(all

these facts."

smoVed a trichinoply cigar. He My companion smiled approvcam« here with his victim in a four- ingly. wheeled cab, which was drawn by a! "You sum up thb difficulties of horse with three old shoes, and one the situation succinctly and well." he new one on probability

said. "There is much that is still obscure, though I have Quite made

vp-my mind en tbe mate facts. As to poor Lestrade'a discovery, it was sioiply a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track, by suggesting socialism and secret societies. It was not done by a German. The A, yoy noticed, was printed somewhat after the German fashion. Now a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator, who overdid his part. It was simply a ruse to divert inquiry into a wrong channel. I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, doctor. You kuow a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick, aad if I show you too much of my method of working you will come to the conclusiou that I am a very ordinary individual after all." "I shall never do that," I answered "You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.

My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty. "I'll tell you one other thing," he said.

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and Square-

toes came'in the same cab, and they walked down the pathway together as friendly as possible—arm in- arm, in all probabiiitv. When they got inside they walked up and down the room—or, rather. Patent-leathers stood still, while Square-toes walked up and down. I could read all that in the dust and 1 could read that, as he walked, he grew more aud more excited. That is shown by the length of strides. He was talking all the while, and working himself up, no doubt, into a fury. Then the tragedy occurred. I've told you all I know myself, now, for this is mere surmise and conjecture. We have a good working basis, however, on which to start. We must hurry up, for I want to go to Halle's concert, to hear Norman Naruda, this afternoon."

This conversation hafl occured while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways. In the dingiest and dreariest of them our driver suddenly came to a stand. "That's Audley Court in there," he said, pointing to a narrow slit it the line of a dead-colored brick. "You'll find me here when you come back."

Audley Court was not an attractive locality. The narrow passage led us into a narrow quadrangle paved with flags and lined with sordid dwellings. We picked our way among groups of dirty children, and through lines of discolored linen until we came to No. 46, the door of which was decorated with a small slip of brass on which the name Ranee was engraved. On inquiry we found that the constable was in bed, and we were shown into a little front parlor to await his coming.

He appeared presently, looking a little irritable at being disturbed in his slumbers. "I made my report the office," he said.

Holmes took a ..-sovereign from his pocket and played with it pensively.

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thought that we should like

to hear it all from your own lips," he said.

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shall be most happy to tell you anything I can," the constable answered, with his eyes upon the little golden disk. "Just let me hear it .ill in your own way, as it occurred."

Ranc? sat down on the horse-hair sofa and knitted his brows, as though determined not to omit anything in his narrative. "I'll tell it ye from the beginning," he said. "M.y time is from ten at night to six in the morning. At eleven there was a fight at tbe White Hart but, bar that, all was quiet enough on the beat. At one o'clock it, began to rain, and I met Harry Murcher—him who has the Holland Grove beat and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta street a talkin'. Presently—maybe about two or a little after-—I thought I would take a look around and see that all was right down the Brixton Road. It was precious dirtv and lonely. Not a soul did I meet all the way down, though a cab or two went past me. I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly a glint of light caught my eye in the window of that same house. Now, I knew that them two houses in Lauriston Gardens was empty on account of him that owns them, who won't hav» the drains seed to, though the very last tenant what lived in one of them died o' typhoid fever. I was knocked all in a heap, therefore, at seeing a light in the window, and I suspected as something was wrong. When I got to the door—"

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stopped, and then walkeu

back to the garden gate," my companion interrupted.

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eouid see Mureter's lantern, but there wasn't no sign of him nor oJ any one else." "There was no one in the street?"

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What did you

(1j that for?" Ranee gave a violent jump, and stared at Sherlock Holmes, with the utmost amazement upon his features.

Why, that's true, sir," he said

though how you

come to know it,Heaven only knowsl Ye see, wh*n I got up to the door, was so still and so lonesome that 1 thought I'd be none tha worse for some one with mc. I ain't afeard of anything on this side o' the grave but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him. The thought gave me a kind o' turn,and I walked back to the irate to see if I

a livin' soul, sir, no as much

a9 a dog. Then I pulled myself together and went back and pushed the door open. All was quiet inside so I went into the room where the light was a-burnin'. There was a candle flickerin' on the mautel-piece —a red wax oae—and by its light I saw—" "Yes, I know all that you saw. You walked arouud the room several times, aud yo knelt down by the body, and then you walked through and tried the kitchen door, and then—"

John Ranee sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion ia his eves." "Where was you hid to see all that?" he cried. "It seem* to that you know a deal more than should."

brown overcoat."

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Holmes laughed, and t.hrew card across the table to the stable. "Don't get arresting me for murder," he said, "i among of the hounds, and not the wolf Mr. Gregson or Mr. Lestrade will answer for that. Go on though. What did you do next?"

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the

Ranee resumed his seat, without,, however, losing his mystified expression.

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went back to the gate and sounded my whistle. That brought Murcher and two more to the spot." "Was the street empty, then?" "Well, it was, as far as anybody that could be of any good goes."

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d:) you mean?"

The constable's features broadened into a grin. I'vcseen many a drunk chap in my time," he said, "but never any one so cry in' drunk as that cove. He vas at the gate when I came out, a leanin' up agin the railin's and asingin' at tho pitch of his lungs about Columbine's New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff. He couldn't stand, far less help." "What sort of a man was he?" asked Sherlock Holmes-

John Ranee appeared to be somewhat irritated at this digression. "He was an uncommon drunk sort man." he said. "He'd ha' found hisself in the station if we hadn't been so took up."

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face—his dress—didn't you

notice them?" Holmes broke in ira-1 patiently. M*

should think I did notice them, seeing that I had to prop him up—I me and Murcher between us. Htf was along chap, with a red face,j the lower part muffled round— "That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?" '""We'd enough to do without lookin' after him," the polioeman said, in an aggrieved voice. "I'll wager he found his way homo all' right." "How was he dressed?"'

"Had he a whip in his hand?*' "A whip—no."

4'He

must have left it behind,'*

muttered my companion. "Yoii didn't happen to see or hear a cab after that?" "No." (TO BE CONTINUED.

Onptnili Carter's Monkey Harper'8 Young Poopie.

Captain Carter, who lived in Wash-' ington, D. C., when on land, had nj great fancy for fine fowls, and amongj his collection prized a fine old king gobbler. On his last cruise hoi brought home a mischievous young! monkey, which gave him so much trouble it was a good deal like "au: elephant on his hands." One day,, hearing a terrible squaking in tins hennery, the Captain found Jocko) with king gobbler under his arm,' while he was deliberately pulling out! the poor bird's last tail feather. The Captain rescued the turkey, and punished the monkey severely, who( knew very well why lie was chas tised. The next day, again hearing a commotion among the feathered' tribe, he went to the scene of action,, and there sat Jocko with the inucli persecuted gobbler between hi-) knees, while ho was trying to put tho feathers back. His intentions of repairing the mischief done were good, but the turkey did not appreciate tiiem,

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Harper's Weekly.

It is worthy of note that tho Chinese very, very long ago hatched ojut their ducks by artificial heat, aud tbe incubators that seem so wonderful to us at the poultry shows and country fairs were an old storv i^i the East long before our greatgrandfathers were born. It is likely that we got the domesticated duck from China, so long ago that we know not when, and the writers on natural history content themselves with telling us" that it is derived from the mallard, mixed in some cases with the musk-duck aud the gadwall, and perhaps the black duck. The domestication of the duck has had an effect the opposite of that usually produced bf civilization on man, :'or the mallard is strictly monogamous. Waterton the naturalist assures us, indeed, that the wild-duck is a most faithful husband, and remains paired for life, while the domestic drake ifc tnost notoriously polygamous.

A Donkey's Mistake.

Uarper'9 Young People.

Aunt Ethel—How ridiculous! Half way 'round the park and back again. Why, it wouldn't take you any longer to go all the way 'round.

Willie—Oh, yes It wouldl ]f I ge" h&if way and turn back, the donke\ hurries home, but if I keep on Ik thinks he is going awa all the time, and just

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THE COREAN WAR

Latest News From the Sceny of Hot Ulit.M,

A Shanghai cable, Oct. 5, says: "Wans Feng Tsa, late Chinese minister at Tokio. has had an andicnce at Pekin and was severely censured on accouot ol his ignorance of the Japanese designs in Corea.

Two Japanese spies have been arrested at Nankiu. One of them confessed that he had been captured before he finished his work. The other*prisoner, a clerk to the other spy, pleaded youth and ignorance in extenuation of his offense. Both are now awaiting the decision of the Viceroy in their cue.

It is reported that 3,000 men belonging to the Sheug division of Li Hung Chang's crack corps, now in Corea, have deserted on account of their pay being in arrears. It is also rumored that they ibave joined tho enemy.

A Japanese fleet of seventy ships has appeared in the Gulf of Pc-Chc-Li, aud there is a panic at Shanghai.

A Yokohoma cable, Oct. 8, says: The advance guard of the Japanese army ha? crossed Yalu river and formed a new camp. A battle is believed to be imminent. A dispatch from Shanghai says that ru mors are current there that a rebellion has broken out in the distrct of Jehol, in the province of Chi Li, tho object of the rebellion being to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. Details have not been received and tho rumors are officially discredited.

A Shanghai dispatch via London says: "United States Minister Denby warned American residents of Pekin that tliecitv is certain to be attacked by the Japanese, and he advises that all women and children bo sent at once to places of safety."

A dispatch from Chefoo to tho Pa'l Ma Gazette of London says: "The Britii-b and Russian ministers, Sir. N. R. O'Con nor and the Count Cassini, started for Pekin yesterday. Tho object of their visit to tho capital is not known." Tho dispatch adds that all the women and children belonging to foreigners have left Pekin for places of safety.

TARIFF LAW COMPLICATIONS.

Another complication has arisen in the determination of the question a9 to whether the entire woolen schedule of the new tariff act goes into effect Jan. 1, 1895, or only so much of it a* rolates to articles of which the component of chief value is wool. The action of the New York Board of Appraisers in deciding that the wool schedule should go into operation on Jan. 1, has been followed by the collector at Baltimore, who recently collectod the old and highest rate of duty on an invoice of Mohair goods. Should the Secretary now decide against the New York board and the collector at Baltimore and instruct the collector to charge the new and lower rate on hair and other goods, iiis action certainly would bring the question into the courts for determination and in case the courts decided against the Secretary every collector who had charged tho lower rate, even on the express orders of the Secretary, would to personally liable for the difference, and if necessary the Government would sue and recover on his bond. It would seem, therefore, that tho Secretary will be compelled either to sustain the New York board or place every collector in the position of having undercharged on a very U.rge class of goods.

EX-OOYETVJTOTl CTTRTT\r,

nf Pennsylvania, died at Bellefonfo. Pa., Sunday, Oct. 7. Governor Cunin was born at Bellefonto in 1S1.", of Irish parentage, lie earlj entered polities us a Whig and held various ofliiM'S. lie was elected governor in J8t0 as a I'opubTican, and was one of the most energetic of all the "war governors." In JS i: Ge:i ral Grant, appoint vi him minister *.o In 1872 Governor Curtio abandoned tins Kepublican party and «uipnrLed Greely for president, and subsequently joined the, |)emocratic party and was elected to Coi press three successive times as a Doin.crat.

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The poet and author, familiarly known ns the "Autocrat." dio 1 at, Boston, Sunday, Oct. 7. Dr. Holmes was born at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. f'9, ISO) graduated at Harvard iit 1 S.?9 began the study of law,, but abandoned it for medicine, and practiced his profession in Boston in 1S3S was professor of anatomy in Dartmouth College in 1847 was appointed to a similar position in Harvard. i)r. Holmes' liternry career is well known to the reading world. Although his death was not unexpected, his demise at last was a shock that admirers keenly felt. Universal sorrow was expressed in all the leading cities, both iu tliis country and in Euraix?.

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